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Procedure price report · Insertion, revision, replacement, removal of cardiac pacemaker or cardioverter/defibrillator

Defibrillator implant with electrode under breastbone

CPT 0571Tthe billing code this page is about

Insertion or replacement of a permanent implantable defibrillator system in which the electrode is placed beneath the breastbone rather than inside the heart, including imaging and device testing.

Hospitals typically charge $35,039 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 359 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $34,772. Most fall between $19,633 and $53,171 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
359
States
36
Filings dated
Sep 2025 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 24, 2026

Median: half of hospitals filed less, half more — and it is a price some hospital actually filed. Average of the middle 60%: the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain average, the lowest or the highest price: the extremes in hospital price files are chargemaster artefacts, not prices anyone pays.

What hospitals charge, from cheapest to most expensive

Cash price percentiles, outpatient, across 359 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$10,124$20,794$35,039$49,373$70,274

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($10,124 vs $70,274).

How the prices are spread

$7,791 – $10,161: 22 hospitals$7,791$10,161 – $13,253: 5 hospitals$13,253 – $17,285: 23 hospitals$13,253$17,285 – $22,545: 27 hospitals$22,545 – $29,404: 43 hospitals$22,545$29,404 – $38,351: 84 hospitals$38,351 – $50,020: 50 hospitals$38,351$50,020 – $65,239: 40 hospitals$65,239 – $85,089: 15 hospitals$65,239$85,089 – $110,979: 17 hospitals$85,089median $35,039price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (326 of 359 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$7,791$10,16122
$10,161$13,2535
$13,253$17,28523
$17,285$22,54527
$22,545$29,40443
$29,404$38,35184
$38,351$50,02050
$50,020$65,23940
$65,239$85,08915
$85,089$110,97917

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$32,069
Median cash price$35,039
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.09×

The Medicare figure is the national unadjusted OPPS rate for this code — what Medicare itself pays a hospital before local wage adjustment. It is a benchmark, not a price anyone is charged.

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $35,039.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: median $38,342 across 18 hospitalsWA$38,342Idaho: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $35,821 across 11 hospitalsMN$35,821Illinois: median $70,186 across 21 hospitalsIL$70,186Wisconsin: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $20,039 across 14 hospitalsMI$20,039New York: median $37,258 across 10 hospitalsNY$37,258Massachusetts: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: median $4,835 across 19 hospitalsIN$4,835Ohio: median $38,142 across 20 hospitalsOH$38,142Pennsylvania: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figurePANew Jersey: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNJConnecticut: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $27,500 across 41 hospitalsCA$27,500Utah: median $31,075 across 22 hospitalsUT$31,075Colorado: median $22,555 across 11 hospitalsCO$22,555Nebraska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $43,958 across 14 hospitalsNC$43,958South Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSCOklahoma: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceALGeorgia: median $20,688 across 12 hospitalsGA$20,688Hawaii: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $50,451 across 50 hospitalsTX$50,451Florida: median $62,385 across 20 hospitalsFL$62,385
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $35,039. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Illinois IL21$70,186+100%$24,540 – $70,186
Florida FL20$62,385+78%$10,124 – $86,390
Texas TX50$50,451+44%$39,354 – $65,039
North Carolina NC14$43,958+25%$42,929 – $43,958
Washington WA18$38,342+9%$8,039 – $40,212
Ohio OH20$38,142+9%$9,013 – $38,142
New York NY10$37,258+6%$21,466 – $90,601
Minnesota MN11$35,821+2%$8,559 – $35,821
Utah UT22$31,075−11%$31,075 – $34,528
California CA41$27,500−22%$26,342 – $37,835
Colorado CO11$22,555−36%$19,333 – $49,651
Georgia GA12$20,688−41%$20,688 – $20,688
Michigan MI14$20,039−43%$19,633 – $57,711
Indiana IN19$4,835−86%$3,578 – $18,335
Virginia VA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Pennsylvania PA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Jersey NJ6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price

Hospitals like yours

The same distribution cut by the kind of hospital. Hospital type and ownership come from CMS; a hospital counts as part of a system when its price file is shared with at least one other hospital under the same brand. The national median is $35,039.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care322$35,821$20,688 – $53,860
Children’s8fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access28$20,039$5,638 – $53,171
Ownership
For-profit37$39,354$22,555 – $150,000
Government31$37,042$14,878 – $43,958
Non-profit290$34,856$19,633 – $53,171
System affiliation
Part of a system340$35,039$20,039 – $53,171
Independent19fewer than 20 hospitals

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$64,324
Median cash price$35,039
Cash as a share of list, median hospital56%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 44%. The share is the median of each hospital’s own cash ÷ list ratio, over hospitals that filed both — not the ratio of the two medians above.

The same procedure, inpatient

314 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $34,753 and the average of the middle 60% is $32,671; most fall between $20,039 and $49,651.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 314 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$12,922$20,794$34,753$42,929$62,385

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 4.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($12,922 vs $62,385).

Of the 354 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 314 gave a usable cash price; 27 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 13 a list price only.

How complete is this

359 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (9%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 410 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted359
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here39
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded11
Hospitals that filed this code410

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Since our last snapshot: there is no earlier snapshot at least 90 days older than this one yet.

We last checked these hospitals’ price files for changes between September 4, 2026 and September 24, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 23, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Insertion, revision, replacement, removal of cardiac pacemaker or cardioverter/defibrillator family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Hp 0571t Insj/Rplcmt Icds W/Substernal Electrode.

Method

Source
The machine-readable price files every U.S. hospital is required by CMS to publish, parsed per hospital. Nothing is surveyed, sampled or modelled.
What counts
One cash (self-pay) price per hospital for this code and setting. A hospital’s own filing can rule its number out — a placeholder, a “not applicable” note, a list price standing in for cash — and our plausibility checks can flag a price far below what every other hospital files. Both kinds are disclosed above and excluded from the statistics; on the compare tool a flagged price is still shown.
Statistics
Percentiles are discrete: each is a price some hospital filed. The average is the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain mean, the minimum or the maximum. A state needs 10 hospitals and a segment 20 to show a figure; otherwise the row shows its count and no number. Medicare is the national unadjusted OPPS rate where one exists.
Names
Procedure names on these pages are our own plain-language titles, not the AMA’s copyrighted CPT descriptors. The code is the identity.

The full rules — sources, statistics, thresholds, limitations — are on the methodology page.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Defibrillator implant with electrode under breastbone (CPT 0571T) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-0571t-defibrillator-implant-with-electrode-under-breastbone